a harborTrollers await nan July 1 opening of nan king salmon play successful Sitka’s Crescent Harbor. The commercialized play for king salmon successful Southeast Alaska opens connected Saturday, July 1, 2023. (Berett Wilber/KCAW)

A wide net and cellular outage successful Sitka continued done nan Labor Day weekend.

Sitka has been without net access since Thursday aft an undersea fibre optic cablegram broke, cutting disconnected nan land from nan online world.

GCI provides net and compartment work for astir Sitkans. In an email to KCAW connected Saturday, GCI Communications Manager Josh Edge said that a fibre repair vessel is en way to nan tract of nan break successful nan cable, and is expected to get successful 5 to six days.

Once connected site, Edge wrote that nan repairs could return up to six days depending connected nan complexity of nan situation. Edge said GCI is moving to afloat reconstruct work arsenic quickly arsenic possible.

On Friday evening, GCI reported that immoderate texting, calling and net capabilities had been restored for its customers. Some Sitkans are reporting nan expertise to nonstop texts and make calls successful immoderate areas of town, but nan work is spotty and limited.

The Sitka Public Library is backmost online utilizing outer net that is disposable to nan public. The room is unfastened for extended hours this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. pinch plans to return to regular business hours connected Tuesday, Sept. 3.